- Riel, louis, 1844-1885, Revolutionaries, Comics & graphic novels, general, Canada, fiction
"This award-winning Canadian bestseller tells the story of the charismatic, and perhaps mad, nineteenth century Métis leader, whose struggle to win rights for his people led to violent rebellion on the nation's western frontier"--P. [4] of cover.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Chester Brown, Chester Brown
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 286
- Publisher
- Distributed in the USA by Chronicle Books, Drawn and Quarterly, Ediciones La Cúpula, S.L.
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781896597638
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“In 1670 the king of England granted Rupert's Land to a fur-trading enterprise called the Hudson's Bay Company.”
Brown was born in Montreal, Canada, on May 16, 1960, and grew up in the nearby suburb of Chateauguay. At nineteen he moved to Toronto where, in 1983, he began self-publishing his work in photocopied mini-comics under the title Yummy Fur. Those pamphlets attracted the attention of comic book publishers and, in 1986, he began began writing and drawing for the Toronto based Vortex Comics. The first Vortex issue of Yummy Fur sold well and Brown quit his day job and began working full time as a cartoonist. In the pages of Yummy Fur he serialized a bleaky humorous story called Ed the Happy Clown, which was published as a graphic novel in 1989. It went on to become a cult classic and established hi
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